Empty all .trash folders

[abdelhost77]

Dears ,

i need please to periodically empty all the .trash folders in users cpanel accounts ,

is it safe to run :

rm -rf /home/*/.trash/*

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

The following thread discusses commands you can use to remove the files from the /home/$user/.trash directory:

Remove All home/username/.trash file

Thank you.

 

[vf-hostmaster]

This link no longer works

 

[Bidi]

Need this two ?! I dont even know why cpanel didnt made some configuration on WHM for this, to empty them on x days or disable .trash, i have lots of cpanel accounts with lots of trash older then 300 days witch customer forget about it

 

[Keith Damron]

Need this two ?! I dont even know why cpanel didnt made some configuration on WHM for this, to empty them on x days or disable .trash, i have lots of cpanel accounts with lots of trash older then 300 days witch customer forget about it

They did.

Login to WHM
go to Tweak Settings
select "Age, in days, of content to purge from users’ File Manager Trash "
set the desider number of days (i.e., 30)
click on "Save"